TY - JOUR
AU - Corman,Hope
AU - Carroll,Anne
AU - Noonan,Kelly
AU - Reichman,Nancy E.
TI - The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families
JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL - No. 12197
PY - 2006
Y2 - May 2006
DO - 10.3386/w12197
UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12197
L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12197.pdf
N1 - Author contact info:
Hope Corman
Department of Economics
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Tel: 609/895-5559
Fax: 609/896-5387
E-Mail: corman@rider.edu
Anne Carroll
Rider University
2083 Lawrenceville Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
E-Mail: carroll@rider.edu
Kelly Noonan
Department of Economics
Rider University
2083 Lawrence Road, Room SWG 306
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Tel: 609/895-5539
E-Mail: knoonan@rider.edu
Nancy Reichman
Rutgers University
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Department of Pediatrics
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
89 French St., Room 1348
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Tel: 732-235-7977
E-Mail: reichmne@rutgers.edu
AB - We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to estimate the effects of poor infant health, pre-pregnancy health conditions of the mother, and the father's health status on health insurance status of urban, mostly unmarried, mothers and their one-year-old children. Virtually all births were covered by health insurance, but one year later about one third of mothers and over 10 percent of children were uninsured. We separately examine births that were covered by public insurance and those that were covered by private insurance. The child's health status had no effect, for the most part, on whether the mother or child became uninsured. For publicly insured births, a maternal physical health condition made it less likely that both the mother and child became uninsured, while maternal mental illness made it more likely that both the mother and child lost insurance coverage. For privately insured births, the father's suboptimal physical health made it more likely that the mother, but not the child, became uninsured.
ER -